They felt that the role of the twenty of them was bait.
To hook these sixty evil sect experts and not let them escape.
Then, the flying knives would finish them off.
Chu Zhiyuan stood deep within the forest, circulating the Yin-Yang Calamity Subduing Secret Scripture.
Once this scripture was activated, his extrasensory perception could observe the operation of Yin and Yang energies.
Above the corpses of these dead evil sect experts rose clusters of Yin energy, gray and misty like thick fog.
As expected, these gray Yin energies headed towards the sky, all in the same direction.
This was just as he had anticipated.
Their Yin energy did not dissipate into the world like that of normal people upon death, but was instead gathered by an invisible force.
His extrasensory perception traced the direction of these Yin energies, pushing further and further, but ultimately reached its limit at two thousand meters and could see no further.
He withdrew his extrasensory perception and continued to observe the changes in these evil sect experts.
With the Yang energy gone and the Yin energy departed, their bodies still contained a strange red energy in motion.
If not for circulating the Yin-Yang Calamity Subduing Secret Scripture, this red energy would have been invisible.
Compared to the gray appearance of the Yin energy, this red energy was much denser, like a ball of flame.
This energy exceeded normal perception; it was not internal energy, true energy, or stellar energy, nor did it belong to Yin or Yang.
Normal people could not sense its existence.
This red energy became increasingly active, as if adding firewood to a bonfire, burning brighter and brighter.
The red energy grew brighter and brighter, truly transforming into a ball of flame.
In a daze, the essence and blood of these evil sect experts became the firewood, converting into fuel to strengthen this red flame.
As the flame grew stronger, their flesh rapidly shrank, eventually turning into bare white bones, like bones that had been dead for many years.
This flame slowly floated up, rose into the air, and then shot towards the sky with increasing speed.
Chu Zhiyuan's extrasensory perception also rose, and faintly, at the end of the void, amidst the clouds and mist, in the hazy light, he vaguely saw two enormous statues.
One was a multi-legged human-bodied statue, and the other was a three-eyed human-bodied statue.
These two colossal statues were vast and majestic, causing him to feel an impulse to kneel and worship.
A dragon's roar echoed in his mind.
The inexplicable pressure he felt disappeared.
Looking again with his extrasensory perception, the end of the void was just an empty space, with nothing there.
The Yin-Yang Calamity Subduing Secret Scripture stopped at some unknown time, and he hurriedly circulated it again.
But the corpses had already turned to white bones, and there was nothing left to see.
He sighed.
Extraterrestrial power!
Is there really a difference between this evil sect and the Divine Dao?
These ghosts and gods use their own statues as a medium to intervene in this world.
Believing in these ghosts and gods allows one to obtain the power they bestow.
It does not continuously inject power, but instead allows believers to devour the flesh and blood of their own kind to strengthen themselves.
Only at the time of breakthrough will it bestow power, allowing them to become Grandmasters, or even Great Grandmasters.
But its fundamental purpose is to strengthen itself.
The power it obtains far surpasses what it bestows.
That Yin energy, that flame, are all powers it wants to absorb.
This is like raising livestock, feeding them fodder, and then slaughtering them when they are plump.
This made him feel inexplicably uncomfortable, as if humans had become pigs and cows being herded.
He felt that compared to cultivating the Divine Dao, these extraterrestrial gods worshiped by the evil sect were even more evil and hateful.
He looked at the fourteen Grandmasters who were still fighting.
Four flying knives shot out simultaneously.
The four evil sect Grandmasters who were attacking weakly suddenly froze.
The other four evil sect Grandmasters suddenly revealed struggling expressions in their eyes, which then turned to madness.
"!"
In the midst of sharp howls, the four flying knives shone brightly.
Chu Zhiyuan perceived the state of mind of the four Grandmasters, knowing that they were going to perish together.
The four Grandmasters died too easily, directly cutting off their thoughts of luck.
They were directly going to destroy everything together.
But just as they were about to activate their secret techniques, the flying knives suddenly accelerated, shining brightly.
This caused them to stagnate involuntarily.
Each of the four flying knives contained the blade intent accumulated by Chu Zhiyuan.
For their mental power, the blade intent was not fatal, but it could interfere with their spirit and the operation of their visualization diagrams.
A stagnation in the mental domain gave the other six people a chance.
They heard Chu Zhiyuan's voice in their ears: "They are going to perish together!"
The six of them immediately knew what to do, no longer holding back.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang—"
The four Grandmasters were successively struck on the back of the head, the muffled sounds like the crushing of melons.
Chu Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, leaned against a pine tree, and activated the Spiritual Communication Talisman.
At the same time, the Heavenly Origin Art and Earthly Origin Art were continuously extracting power to restore himself.
After a moment, his spirit recovered greatly, and he once again circulated the Yin-Yang Calamity Subduing Secret Scripture, looking at the eight dead Grandmasters.
He was immediately engrossed in what he saw.
The circumstances of the death of a Grandmaster were completely different from those of a Grandmaster.
The Yin energy of a Grandmaster was lighter in color, seemingly a faint white mist, somewhat close to the transparency of Yang energy.
These faint Yin energies did not drift towards the other six Grandmasters, but also floated towards the sky.
Could this be the merging of Yin and Yang?
But what was active on the bodies of the Grandmasters was black, a ball of black flame.
These black flames were stirring within the bodies of the Grandmasters, absorbing strands of black energy, making them increasingly dense, deep, and shiny.
He judged that these strands of black should be Yin Demonic Energy, caused by killing.
His extrasensory perception felt uncomfortable with even a slight observation, wishing he could get far away.
The black flames rose into the air, and vague, vast, and majestic statues appeared at the end of the void.
His extrasensory perception caused him to be slightly dazed.
He hurriedly pressed on the Bright Moon Blade, and the Glazed Blade Scripture flowed.
The blade intent of the Bright Moon Blade, which had already grown much stronger, immediately merged with him, and his mind was protected by the Bright Moon Blade's blade intent, no longer able to be shaken.
This time, killing eight Grandmasters greatly strengthened the blade intent.
After the previous time, he had already pondered a way to deal with it, and this was the move.
It really worked.
His extrasensory perception continued to illuminate the distant void.
He saw clusters of black flames falling separately onto the huge and magnificent statues, causing the statues to faintly glow.
The statues were greatly nourished, and their eyes seemed to come alive, looking at him.
He wanted to retreat but it was too late, his eyes lit up, and his mind was immediately blank.
The dragon's roar sounded in his mind again.
He came back to his senses and found that his Azure Silk Robe had bulged, and Stellar Energy was flowing around him incessantly.
He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling extremely fortunate.
Fortunately, he had the Dragon Transformation Art.
The sky had already cleared, with no more abnormalities.
The eight Grandmasters had already turned into white bones, leaving nothing behind.
This made Chu Zhiyuan quite disappointed.
The eight Grandmasters were all poor ghosts, and they didn't even have treasures to protect themselves.
He further clarified the difference between Yin energy and Yin Demonic Energy.
The world only knows Yin Demonic Energy.
Grandmasters only know Yin Demonic Energy and do not recognize Yin energy.
Now he understood, and thus could reverse-deduce a part of the truth about the Grandmaster realm.
In the Grandmaster realm, not to mention the changes in Yin energy, the key was Yin Demonic Energy.
The Yin Demonic Energy on a Grandmaster's body was truly worlds apart compared to that of a Grandmaster.
A Grandmaster could provide Yin energy and the aura condensed from their own essence and blood.
A Grandmaster provided Yin Demonic Energy.
He understood that what the extraterrestrial gods needed most was Yin Demonic Energy, and the Grandmaster's Demonic Energy came from the number of people they had killed.
After the Grandmaster stage, the spirit became pure and condensed, and the influence of extraterrestrial gods diminished, gaining their own will.
But if a Grandmaster lost control and was completely controlled by an extraterrestrial god, it would create boundless slaughter.
Thinking of this, his killing intent towards the evil sect grew even stronger.
